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Klein Paradox for Spin-0 Particles by Douglas M. Gingrich by
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The institutional lecture derives the outgoing branch, boundary amplitudes and signed charge-current balance for a scalar particle at an electrostatic step. Equations 4.142–4.155 distinguish ordinary transmission, evanescence and the negative-kinetic-energy regime; the following discussion interprets the latter through pair creation.
Institutional description of condensation/rainout, higher-source-air drawdown, turbulent mixing and radiative warming. Only the physical mechanisms section is used here.
Teleconnections and stationary Rossby waves by Isaac Held by
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Isaac Held's authored demonstration of a rotating-sphere response to localized equatorial heating and an explanation of extratropical ENSO patterns. Used for the wave pathway behind teleconnections, not as a Cambridge examination answer.
IERS Conventions (2010) by International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service by
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Criterion for Ferromagnetism from Observations of Magnetic Isotherms by Anthony Arrott by
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Physical Review 108, 1394 (1957), published 15 December 1957.
The Neutral Atomic Phases of the ISM in the Galaxy by Mark G. Wolfire and others by
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The primary model computes cold and warm atomic equilibrium branches and the pressure interval where they coexist. Its heating and cooling depend on the radiation field, ionization and gas abundances. This is a thermal-phase model for the Milky Way disk, not a claim that all interstellar phases share one pressure or a perfectly static configuration.
Numerical Calculations of the Dynamics of a Collapsing Proto-Star by Richard B. Larson by
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The primary numerical study follows spherical protostellar collapse. A small central core forms before most of the envelope reaches it and subsequently grows by accretion. The abstract also describes infrared reprocessing by the dusty envelope. Spherical symmetry and the chosen radiative and thermodynamic treatment are model assumptions; rotation, magnetic fields and non-spherical accretion require additional physics.
Search for squarks and gluinos with the ATLAS detector in final states with jets and missing transverse momentum using 4.7 fb^-1 of sqrt(s) = 7 TeV proton-proton collision data by ATLAS Collaboration by
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Physical Review D 87, 012008. Full 2011 7 TeV sample, inclusive jets and missing-momentum search. Sections III, IX and XI describe the strategy, background estimates and interpretation. This source predates the April 2013 examination; it is distinct from the later 8 TeV analysis.
LIGO: The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory by B. P. Abbott and others by
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Reports on Progress in Physics 72, 076901. Primary initial-LIGO apparatus, noise and search account; not the later Advanced LIGO discovery paper.
Towards the Theory of Reheating After Inflation by Lev Kofman and others by
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By Lev Kofman, Andrei Linde and Alexei A. Starobinsky. Physical Review D 56, 3258–3295. Primary treatment of resonant particle production with expansion, backreaction and rescattering.
How long before the end of inflation were observable perturbations produced? by Andrew R. Liddle and Samuel M. Leach by
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Unified Gauge Theories and the Baryon Number of the Universe by Motohiko Yoshimura by
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Physical Review Letters 41, 281; erratum Physical Review Letters 42, 746. The primary abstract proposes baryon-number-violating early-universe reactions in unified gauge theories. Its particular numerical model is not assumed as an established prediction here.
Single-shot readout of electron spin states in a quantum dot using spin-dependent tunnel rates by R. Hanson and others by
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Primary preprint, submitted 31 December 2004: arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0412768
Electron-electron interactions in antidot-based Aharonov-Bohm interferometers by S. Ihnatsenka and others by
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Physical Review B 80, 115303. doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.115303
Primary preprint: arxiv.org/abs/0905.1338
Section I discusses edge-channel connectivity and the distinction between fixed-area flux counting and charging-modified periods. Section III.C, Fig. 7, discusses scattering-induced transmission via antidot-bound states. The calculation treats interaction effects and should not be read as a universal prediction of isolated Lorentzian peaks.
Boundary layer turbulence by Massachusetts Institute of Technology by
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Institutional lecture notes. Section 20.4 describes thermal convection and the rigid-boundary critical Rayleigh number.
Developing the theory by United States Geological Survey by
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The sections on magnetic striping and seafloor spreading explain the cooling-rock magnetic record and the approximately paired stripes across spreading ridges.
Roger James Elliott calculated how excitons alter optical absorption near a semiconductor band gap. Treating the electron-hole attraction with an effective mass model produces bound-state absorption lines as well as a modified continuum. The 1957 theory distinguishes direct and phonon-assisted indirect transitions, and shows how optical selection rules change the edge's shape and strength. It connects microscopic bound states with features visible in a measured absorption spectrum.[ref]
Intensity of Optical Absorption by Excitons by Roger James Elliott. Physical Review 108, 1384 (1957), abstract: direct/indirect and allowed/forbidden edge transitions
Portrait of Roger James Elliott
. Via Wikimedia Commons; credits and usage information are on the linked source file page. Source.An electron-microscopy researcher whose team tested how beam energy affects images of thin polymer films. The highest accelerating voltage did not give the clearest structure: the experiment balanced image information against electron beam damage. Among the tested conditions, 120 kV produced the best reported resolution for the studied specimens, illustrating why an optimal setting must be established for the material being imaged.[ref]
Optimal acceleration voltage for near-atomic resolution imaging of layer-stacked 2D polymer thin films by Baokun Liang and others. Abstract and experimental comparison of 80, 120, 200 and 300 kV
Sergei V. Kalinin coauthored a theory separating the contrast mechanisms in piezoresponse force microscopy. Modeling a small tip above an anisotropic dielectric surface connects the local electric field, contact geometry and measured displacement. Electrostatic and electromechanical contributions can change with the imaging conditions, so the same apparent domain contrast can have different physical origins. The work establishes conditions needed to interpret the measurement as a quantitative probe of ferroelectric response.[ref]
Imaging mechanism of piezoresponse force microscopy of ferroelectric surfaces by Sergei V. Kalinin and Dawn A. Bonnell. Physical Review B 65, 125408 (2002), abstract and limiting tip-contact regimes
Portrait of Sergei V. Kalinin
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